1st August post(out of 2 or 3 hehe)
i decided to order from reefhot spot since none of the LFS was carrying pep shrimps or super tongan nass snails.
2 x Peppermint Shrimp (Lysamata wurdemanni)
1 x Cerith Snail ()
Pack Count 10 Pack
5 x Nassarius Snails--Super Tonga
1 x Pink Lady Zoa Rock 20-40 Polyps
with shipping it was around $90
i was in such a rush to get everything acclimated(i took the day off) i really didnt get many pics
this was to boost my cleanup crew a bit since i didnt have any super tongan snails and i didnt want to order any reg nass snails since they could be confused with welks. Every thing came packaged well but i noticed there were only 5 cerith snails with only 4 moving around. on top of that one of them had 3 barnicles lol i called Reefhotspot and told them in only recieved half of my cerith snails, they refunded me the 5 bucks but i was still kinda steamed since i paid shipping and they are hard to come by at the LFS around here.
i acclimated all of them and lost one tongan nass and the cerith that was not moving around. the zoas were diped in some reef dip i have and a freshwater dip.
this is a current shot of them, i have yet to get a great shot tho
i put one pep shrimp in the DT and one in the fuge that decided he didnt like it so he moved to the sump(intake) area of the sump/fuge. i also put one tongan in the fuge.
about a week later i added a new coral in the tank a blushing leather coral. doing the same thing i do with all corals, dip and freshwater
here is another pic of it upclose
my sand looks so nice in that pic too, after i put this coral in diatoms started to over take the tank. the starting point was the new coral or the plug it came from, after a week i also had a bit of cyno on the rocks. After seeing swift dealing with cyno i decided to do 2 days lights out with blankets. After 2 days all the diatoms and cyno was gone, all the fish and corals were ok and the water was never clearer. I removed my rena x3 canister filter since i had a phosphate reactor and had a TLF carbon reactor hooked up.
i saw a 1 degree drop in over all temp, for the first time the reef was sitting around 77.8.
Edit: i picked up a little frag of pulsing xenia also
next update: kud buys alot of stuff!!!!
